Edges of empire : orientalism and visual culture / edited by Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones and Mary Roberts. - Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005. - xiv, 230 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - New interventions in art history .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [206]-221) and index.

Introduction: Visualising culture across the edges of empire / Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones and Mary Roberts -- Commemorating imperiality: from Algiers to Damascus / Zeynep Çelik -- Out of the earth, Egypt's Statue of Liberty? / Darcy Grigsby -- Cultural crossings: sartorial adventures, satiric narratives and the question of indigenous agency in nineteenth-century Europe and the Near East / Mary Roberts -- "Oriental" femininity as cultural commodity: authorship, authority, and authenticity / Reina Lewis -- The sweet waters of Asia: representing difference/differencing representation in the nineteenth century / Frederick Bohrer -- The work of translation: Turkish modernism and the "generation of 1914" / Alistair Wright -- Stolen or shared: ancient Egypt at the Petrie Museum / Sally McDonald -- Andalusia in the time of the Moors: regret and colonial presence in Paris, 1900 / Roger Benjamin.

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Intercultural communication in art.
Orientalism in art.
Art, European--19th century.
Art, Middle Eastern--European influences.
Art, North African--European influences.

N7429 / .E34 2005

303.48